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[strawbale] Fwd: Re: BETEC Symposium
Hello All,
Here is more information about the US government-sponsored Workshop &
Symposium. As I mentioned in the previous email, fee
waivers/scholarships will be extended to those travelling a long
distance. (Contact Arun Vohra at the email below -- do mention that
I referred you.)
I will help arrange home-stays in Santa Fe and car pools, so contact me
about that. Santa Fe is about a 4-hour drive north of Kingston,
where the Builders Without Borders Project Facilitator Training will take
place Oct 1-10. So this would be a very intense few weeks,
but perhaps an excellent "crash course" for the interested
professional.
Best Regards,
Catherine Wanek, The Last Straw Journal
Subject: Re: BETEC
Symposium
To: "Catherine Wanek" <blackrange@zianet...>
From: Arun.Vohra@EE...DOE.GOV
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:07:37 -0400
Catherine,
Here is some more information. Would you
like to be a Co-Moderator
for the strawbale session (3 presenters)? Please let me know by
early
afternoon tomorrow, July 12, as I have to send the program to the
printer
soon afterwards. Unfortunately the Symposium costs almost $300, but
the Workshop costs $100. - Arun
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The Building Environment and Thermal Envelope Council
(BETEC) will host a two day-long symposium titled "Sustainable
Buildings
III" on October 17 - 18, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico in conjunction
with a
4-day workshop on October 13 - 16 in El Rito, New Mexico (one hour
drive
from Santa Fe.)
The Workshop will feature hands-on instruction
on various old and new
construction technologies such as Papercrete, Earth Tire walls, adobe,
straw bales,
QuickFill wall using leaves and sawdust, flyash to insulate and
make
pourable foundations and floorslabs, composite wall structure etc.
.
Limited accommodation is available at the
Workshop site, Northern New
Mexico Community College, El Rito, NM. For accommodation, please
contact:
Dorothy Duran,
Campus Director, Northern New Mexico Community
College,
El Rito Campus, Hwy 554, P.O. Box 160
El Rito, NM 87530
Phone: (505) 581-4156; Fax: (505) 581-4130
Email: DDURAN@NNM...CC.NM.US
The fee for the workshop is $100 for all four days.
The Symposium will be held at the Radisson Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Radisson Hotel, Santa Fe,
NM
Keynote: Robert M. (Mike) Unthank
Director, Buildings Industry Division, State of New Mexico,
Chairman, National Conference of States on Building Codes
and Standards (NCS/BCS)
Moderator: Arun Vohra, Thermal Insulation and
Building Materials
Program Manager,
U.S. Department of Energy
Co-Moderators:
Andre Desjarlais, Program Manager, Oak Ridge National LAboratory,
Fermin Aragon, General Construction Bureau Chief, State of New
Mexico
Lindsay Chism, Home Builders Association of Central New Mexico
Sema Wynne, Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association
Karen Sturnick, Habitat for Humanity, Santa Fe
Michael McDiarmid, Energy Engineer, Energy Conservation and
Management
Division, State of New Mexico
Sara Hart, Senior Editor, Building Science and Technology,
Architectural
Record Magazine, McGraw Hill Inc.
Amy K. Townsend, Director, Sustainable Development International
9:00 AM Technical Session
LEED -Residential -- The Materials Perspective
An introduction to the Materials Resources portion of the U.S.
Green
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
residential rating program.
Ann V. Edminster, National Resources Defense Council
Seattle Sustainability Activities.
Leading By Example: Political and social keys to developing a
LEED-based
municipal green building program and innovative examples of the program
in
action.
Michael Aoki-Kramer, City of Seattle Dept. of Design, Construction and
Land
Use
Green Materials and Sustainable Guidelines for Housing
Comparison of databases used to certify green building materials;
local
sustainable guidelines contrasted with USGBC Guide.
Erv Bales, New Jersey Institute of Technology
10:10 A.M. Coffee
10:30 A.M. Session Resumes
Environmental Life Cycle Inventory of Single Family Housing
Results for a typical house with various exterior wall assemblies
demonstrate the significant uses of energy and materials, and sources
of
emissions.
John Gadja, Martha G. VanGeem, and Medgar Marceau, Construction
Technology
Laboratories, Inc.
Ecological Urban Dynamics.
An integrated, ecosystem approach to viewing the built environment in
terms
of quantitative and qualitative impressions that the structures make on
the
community.
Brian Deal, University of Illinois
Project Facilitator Training in Locally-Appropriate Design and
Building
Construction methods with natural and other locally-available
building
materials, as well as facilitation approaches for work in the
field,
including cultural sensitivity, project management
skills, and assessment strategies
Joseph F. Kennedy, Builders Without Borders
12 NOON Lunch
1:00 P.M. Technical Session
Community-Built Housing Solution: A Model Strawbale Home
Design
A sustainable model home design and construction process for a
grass-roots
community-based tribal housing program using load-bearing strawbale
construction.
David Riley and Sergio Palleroni, Pennsylvania State University
The Rice Hull House
Construction of fire-resistant, super-insulated structures using rice
hulls
as loose-fill insulation with framing of steel studs and
spacejoists.
Paul A. Olivier, Engineering, Separation & Recycling LLC
Plastered Straw-Bale Construction
This century-old construction technique creates highly-insulated
buildings
that are inexpensive, easily contructed, energy-saving, and
sustainable.
Bruce King, Ecological Building Network, and John Straube, University
of
Waterloo, Canada
2:15 P.M. COFFEE
2:45 P. M. SESSION RESUMES
Innovative Cements Evaluation Project
Technologies that use industrial waste as major components of cement
mix.
Heather Warkentien, Civil Engineering Research Foundation
The Fibrous Exterior Wall Assembly: Natural Fiber Biocomposites for
the
Sustainable Exterior Envelope
Composite materials that utilize natural fibers as the reinforcing
component within a natural polymer matrix offer economic and
architectural
advantages for low-cost exterior envelope components.
John E. Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Use of Treated Wood Structural Systems
Treated wood structural systems used in sustainable building in
various
parts of the world are examined and cost comparisons based on
various
construction materials, maintenance requirements, and life-cycle
analyses
are presented.
Tarun K. Bhatia, U.S. Borax.
5:00 P.M. Reception
Thursday, October 18, 2001. Radisson Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
8:30 AM Overview: Science, Discovery of America and Buildings Old
and New
Arun Vohra
9:00 AM Technical Session
Adobe Construction
The oldest construction material in the world that is still used for
modern
houses.
Quentin Wilson, Northern New Mexico Community College
Quick-Fill Wall Systems
Highly insulated walls constructed of natural, manufactured and
waste
materials.
Arun Vohra, U.S. Department of Energy, Arthur. H. Rosenfeld,
California
Energy Commission, Jay Burch, National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
Kenneth
E. Wilkes, Andre. Desjarlais, Achilles Karagiozis and Jan. Kosny, Oak
Ridge
National Laboratory, David Jauregui, and Khalid. Sobhan, New Mexico
State
University
Earth-Tire Wall System
The Earthship is constructed from used automobile tires filled with
compacted earth in a comprehensive approach to sustainable housing.
Michael Reynolds, Solar Survival
10:10 A.M. Coffee
10:30 A.M. Session Resumes
Zero Energy House
Concrete combined with active and passive solar heating and
photovoltaics
used in a "whole-building" approach makes a sustainable and
durable house
with low energy requirements.
Judy Fosdick, Tierra Concrete Homes
Energy Performance of Insulated Masonry Walls in Residential
Construction
Building infiltration levels, insulation levels and location, and
thermal
mass effects are investigated in four homes with different
insulated
masonry construction and compared with frame-built homes in field tests
and
simulation modeling.
Paul Norton, Bob Hendron, and Michael Smith, National Renewable
Energy
Laboratory; Paul Reeves, Partnership for Resource Conservation, Ed
Hancock,
Mountain Energy Partnership
Pre-Cast Concrete Insulated Foundation Wall Systems -
Opportunities,
Deficiencies, and Research
First-hand experience with the installation of these systems and
current
efforts to address deficiencies and improve marketability.
Diane Griffiths, Steven Winter Associates
12 NOON Lunch
1:00 P.M. Technical Session
Composite Structures
High-tech composite foam sandwich walls.
David Bryant, American Structural Composites
Papercrete Structures
Recycling paper to make building blocks and cast in place
structures.
Lex Perry
Sustainable Foundations
Use of flyash to insulate and make pourable foundations and
floorslabs.
Bruce Salisbury, Arizona Public Service Company
2:15 P.M. COFFEE
2:45 P. M. SESSION RESUMES
Improving Durability of Building Envelopes Through Moisture Control
Modeling
An analytical tool that can be used to design moisture tolerance
into
building envelope components.
Andre Desjarlais, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building Envelope Technology Roadmap Roundtable
An industry led initiative to develop the U.S. Department of
Energy's
vision, key goals, and strategies to help align government resources
with
the building industry's high priority needs.
Arun Vohra, U.S. Department of Energy
Speakers Forum
All presenters will participate in an open Q&A Forum
"Catherine Wanek" <blackrange@zianet...> on 07/11/2001
11:48:10 AM
To: ARUN.VOHRA@EE...DOE.GOV
cc: livingearth62@hotmail...
Subject: Re: BETEC Symposium
Hello Arun,
You may recall that I participated in the first meeting of BETEC, in
1998
at the DOE in Washington DC -- I attended as part of a group from
the
Natural Building Colloquium - East, which was going on at the time.
I am a
particular advocate of energy-efficient straw-bale construction, and am
the
Editor of The Last Straw, the International Journal of Straw Bale &
Natural
Building.
I am also a founding member of Builders Without Borders, and would
like
more information about attending the Symposium in October.
(You may have already gotten an official response to your email below
from
BWB Director, Joseph Kennedy.)
Specifically, I'd like to know Location and Registration information,
as
well as the agenda - when it is formulated -- Including information
on the
workshop in El Rito, that I understand is being held in conjunction
with
the Symposium.
If attendance is "open to the public," then I will include it
in the
Calendar of Events of the next issue of The Last Straw, as well as
spread
the word through our network of ecological builders in New Mexico.
I appreciate your continued work on this topic, and look forward to
seeing
you again in October.
Best regards,
Catherine Wanek, Editor
The Last Straw Journal
The International Journal of Straw Bale & Natural Building
HC66, Box 119
Hillsboro, NM 88042
(505) 895-5400 /fax (505) 895-3326
<thelaststraw@strawhomes...>
http://www.strawhomes.com
At 01:37 PM 7/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
From: Arun.Vohra@ee....gov
To: mail@builderswithoutborders...
cc: YT7@ORNL...GOV
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:47:44 -0400
Subject: BETEC Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, October 17-18, 2001
I am pleased to inform you that your abstract has been selected for
presentation
at the upcoming BETEC Symposium on Sustainable Buildings. A formal
letter
of
acceptance will be sent to you directly from BETEC.
In preparation for this mailing, can you kindly email your
logistical
information (Name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and
email
address) to me at arun.vohra@ee....gov. In this email, please
confirm
your
intention to participate in the program. Be aware that BETEC can
not
underwrite
any of your travel expenses.
Thank you for your interest in participating in this symposium. I
look
forward
to meeting you and hearing your presentation.
Arun Vohra,
Manager, Thermal Insulation and Building Materials Program
Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
U.S. Department of Energy, EE-41
1000 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20585-0121,
Phone (202)586-2193, Fax (202)586-9811; E-mail:
ARUN.VOHRA@EE...DOE.GOV